Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
A student, a father and son: Portraits of Nice victims
The Bastille Day crowd on the waterfront in Nice, France, was a festive mixture of French locals and foreign visitors. The truck that slammed into them late Thursday, apparently intent on hitting as many as possible, did not discriminate — among the 84 dead identified so far were Americans, Germans, Ukrainians and a Russian. After the...
The Latest: Swiss, Ukrainian, 2 Armenians among Nice dead
British Prime Minister Theresa May has condemned the Nice attack and called for a “redoubling” of efforts to defeat violent extremists. The new prime minister called the attack “horrifying” and said: “We must redouble our efforts to defeat these brutal murderers who want to destroy our way of life.” U.S. State...
UN report blasts both sides in Ukraine conflict
MOSCOW (AP) — A report from the United Nations’ human rights arm has strongly criticized both sides in Ukraine’s fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians. …read more Source: San Francisco...
NATO, Russian ambassadors meet to keep dialogue open
Among other things, U.S. President Barack Obama and the other NATO leaders ordered a reinforcement of allies closest to Russia with four new multinational battalions for Poland and the Baltic states. In a joint declaration, Obama and the other leaders in Warsaw last week sternly accused Russia of “destabilizing actions and politics,”...
Kerry heads to Russia for Ukraine, Syria talks
In addition to deep differences over Syria and Ukraine, if follows last week’s tit-for-tat expulsions by both nations of diplomats after an incident outside the American embassy in Moscow in which a Russian security guard scuffled with a U.S. diplomat. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Polish leader recalls 1943 slaughter of Poles by Ukrainians
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leader of Poland’s ruling conservative party has commemorated a massacre of Poles by Ukrainians during World War II, describing it as genocide. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the Law and Justice party, laid flowers Monday at a monument in Warsaw to the victims of the Volyn massacre on the 73th anniversary of a key...
Canada’s prime minister on visit to Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko told a news conference at the end of the talks in Kiev on Monday that the free trade deal will do away with “99 percent of barriers within the next seven years in trade” between the two countries. Coming to Ukraine was a real priority to me, Trudeau said, lauding the trade deal as a milestone agreement that...
The Latest: NATO leaders wary of Russian intentions
The official, who was not authorized to make public remarks and spoke on condition of anonymity, says President Barack Obama and the other alliance leaders agreed during their Friday evening discussion that they need to maintain “a firm and united stance” on Russia and that Moscow “has to deliver” on its commitments under...
The Latest: Russia says NATO acts like an enemy
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is willing to cooperate with NATO although it acts toward Russia like an enemy. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russia’s hostile actions in Ukraine have spurred the alliance to raise its defenses on the eastern flank. Stoltenberg spoke to reporters before the NATO...
AP PHOTOS: Squatting flourishes in free-wheeling Kiev
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In the capital of Ukraine, a country gripped by a separatist war in the east and an excruciating recession, squats are flourishing and expanding in dozens of historic buildings in the city center. Nearly a decade ago, Miroslav, a gas industry engineer who declined to give his last name, and his friends put locks on a couple...
